Is closing. Today only go india will examine whats up, stick for india and the wood. Hello and welcome. Im sunny that i expect. C Global Warming is driving a rise in sea levels and causing heavier rainfall and storms. Thats alarming for flood prone communities on the front lines of the climate crisis. Like youre in min bite, but authorities predict bots of the city could become permanently submerged by 2015 amman group. They lives in a month by suburb, and hes glad the monsoons have ended. His horn is habitable now. But the ground floor apartment, he lives in, was completely flooded just a month ago. Whys the, are those men in, within 10 minutes . The house filled with over a meter of water whose gloom. Thats why were dense about flooding. Every yoga being turning over the for did he shot on his foreign camera, shows family members wading through dirty water looking for various belongings every season drains him and his neighbors of thousands of euros to pay for home repairs and brings uninvited guests. The long legs are there, so there are snakes and mosquitoes that come in with the flood. Want her to go to beyond the last time. There were 3 or 4 sneaks in our house. Erica marking one learning door though, it also brings in mud you and all sorts of garbage order with keyboard joseph in gordon. We also get skin diseases because of the flags level one in ga problem. Got that either flooding and extreme rainfall have increased threefold. Here since the 19 fifties and Scientists SayGlobal Warming is playing in increasingly significant role been that is one, were gonna, were more moisture for a long time. So what happens is that theres a lot more subtle, so any building out an up band. It is. So saturated it to dance all of this water in a short spare. Yeah. So originally, so c, s heavy to extreme grain for in this regions. So question got is an example is a perfect example. Mum bias, its on the western coast. So it bends, the brunt of the monson clouds, are they move in from the ocean . There are several factors which disadvantage the city with rising fee levels, its full cost to be under 3 feet of water by 2100 vendor hearings. And this has to get stretched out into the arent even see for a while. But when the sea level is rising year by year, the m one o one that gets fleshed out into the sea and it takes a long, long time for that. Wanted to get flushed out. So that is a be going to call me when multiple extreme brother events act together. Malays rivers dont have that that he said, boy said oh she was in miti once dreamed region. But as the city has grown from a cluster of fishing hamlets to becoming india, Financial Capital migrants from all over the country have moved in. In the process, the rivers have become blocked and polluted. Ocoee didnt go above 80, works on slowing down oven flooding and its impact a via glue. Really will go do a little meander and generally take a big dart gun. Libya, im sure youve seen that as dixon. S. Done a received on with the large cove. Now people i need of land, so they start straightening the rivers near by and got a bill cutting them off at unnatural angles. For gum going, the thing is you cant deliver what a gland bonnie in any language, you know what i mean, you can decide whether it takes a left on, on a right. Dont go live. So especially when theres a lot of water, the river crosses old man, mid boundaries war and this is the main reason it floods. So this is the mean, these and museum of blurred urban debris. We are by word got ability with the cities. Mangroves also once formed a natural barrier, which absorbed excess flood water, but theyre being cut down for development. One of the citys biggest shopping complexes be casey, sits on a former mangrove swamp. And then theres a legal encouragement and bad planning. In its latest attempt to tackle these problems, the government has put a committee together to look into all the contributing factors raise coming up with a Climate Change. Our plan was a formal way of doing action plan and they are ready to talk with scientists. So that they have a plan would use science base plan on pro to which i think is white also do change. Action plans are based on the bus tell the place or a manifested in the past, but that warm d was, you know, if theyre not or enough that once theyve got us from future events, let me do a tempting to make more people connect with the seduce, natural flood protections go both of 80 started driven much in 2018. This is important to understand what citizen communities develop and understanding of the local environment and the impact of Climate Change. This is one of the handful of platforms residents are now using to demand change. An action in a city with bleak climate, projections more by decimals, or just some of the many 1000000 killed in india who stand to lose if Climate Change continue unchecked. Already it effects a heating people in the rural areas, heart issues set to be among the world regions, bearing the brunt of the impact will socially and economically this year. Devastation is one of the many effects of Global Warming. The fact loans of 20202021 ravaged the indian seed office, spangled millions of people lost their livelihoods. What can we do . We are dependent on relief now. We will have to leave this in the funds to find work. There is nothing left to the east, an indian state is one among many regions in the country already living with the consequences of the climate crisis. Hotspots or extreme weather event, drought cycles, but also there. So what that means is that, you know, the war and bonds are already facing the front of a regular rain patterns and prolonged droughts have affected the lives of millions of people. The extreme that has inflicted heavy losses on farmers and the agriculture sector. Indian economy. As a whole will suffer over the next 50 years. The service industrious and construction and transport sectors combined could respectively hemorrhage 11. She didnt us dollars. Retail tourism and manufacturing are also going to be hard hit. If india ignore the climate crisis. In 2015 more than 190 countries agreed in paris to limit Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees celsius. India pledged to reduce its Carbon Emissions and increase forest cover that would absorb up to 3000000000 tons of carbon dioxide. The country wants 40 percent of its electricity to come from renewables by 2030. And india seems to be on track. Down the 10 we are less than 20 megawatts. We now have more than 100000 megawatts of them. Soda and biomass in many other india has sunlight in abundance, and labor is cheap to d. India generates the most affordable solar power in the world. But thats not enough to satisfy the countries growing energy needs. 2 thirds of its electricity still comes from fossil fuels like gold. The country has made no pledges to phase it out. On the contrary, the government is opening more coal mines and called power plants than ever before. India has continued re, lines on coal based power makes it the walls, 3rd biggest polluter after china and the u. S. Export, see, it is likely that india will become the main emitter of Greenhouse Gases in the 2nd half of the century. If it doesnt take a different pop, you can ask of a pinterest and in his doing so to, for example, to promote Technology Transfer as 11 element. If we are not able to to bring also campus like in the on board say i will be the 1. 00 warming already really in 11. 00, decayed or 50 years from from now is this would mean a clover failure. A big country like india needs to move more decisively towards the 1. 5 degrees celsius spot for itself and for the world only, then there is a chance of getting the Global Climate crisis under control. The battle agreement create an obligations that states have to live up to that open channels on legal action. Over Climate Change to the activism is mostly winnable on the streets. But some of the biggest climate victories us court in court. Bending court cases could get a boost from a recent woo and Human Rights Council resolution. It recognizes access to a healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental right people, all of the world are suing governments and corporations of Climate Change. And theyre winning. This man made legal history. Ask ali gary is a lawyer from pakistan. Like many other developing countries, it is being hit particularly hard by Climate Change for years. People that have suffered from to rental rainfall, floods, and droughts, amongst other things. And this is bound to get worse. So back in 2015 liquor refilled a petition with a revolutionary argument. Its that the government wasnt doing enough to protect that citizens from the effects of Climate Change. And doing so it was violating the human rights. I never realized, or even tor expected that it would get as big as it did. Friday was to a large extent in our own, the dora, but that ever really its target. The high court agreed with him and his team and ordered the government to step up action, and it set up a Supervisory Committee to ensure that happens. That was a real breakthrough. And its one of the early cases using human rights arguments and using them very successfully to convince the court that they do have the jurisdiction. And that is within that how it came to be. Catherine. Hi im misty co author of a major report on climate litigation. While all this was going on in pakistan, another casement headlines, Environmental Group or hender, was ring the dots government with a very similar argument. They said by not lowering emissions faster, it would endanger peoples lives in the future. The case went all the way to the country supreme court. It eventually upheld the decision that by 2020, the government should cut Greenhouse Gas emissions by at least 25 percent below 9090. 00 levels. The court said the dutch state must protected citizens, human rights, more specifically the rights to life and the right to respect for private and family life. But wait a 2nd. How are these connected to Climate Change . Well, let me give you 2 examples. Extreme heat waves already claim lives every here. So just sitting back and doing nothing to stop temperatures from going up even further, would breach peoples right to life or take rising sea levels. Hundreds of millions of people on islands, often coastal regions might lose the homes in the near future. This breaches their rights, respectful privates and family life. In both contributing t, im change, i say, investing in fossil fuel infrastructure or subsidizing fossil fuel companies. And by failing to regulate the activities of others, a, allowing a big polluting entities to keep good eating governance or failing in that responsibility to protect their citizens from human rights hands and come with Climate Change as caligari and offender relied on human rights as the central argument in their cases, and in doing so, they really pushed open the door for cases and other countries. In germany for example, activists took the government to court over its Climate Action plan, and one germany now has to cut emissions a lot faster. And in australia, a court ruled the environment minister has a duty of careful young people when, for example, deciding whether to approve coal mine expansion. A group of young people including swedish climate activists, committed soon back, filed a petition with the u. N. Committee on the rights of the child, except that ardent tina brazil france, germany and turkey violated the rights of children by not taking action on Climate Change. But the Committee Said they must 1st bring lawsuits and the National Court of these countries. Human rights as universal, which is why its very likely that well see a lot more of these cases in the future. And actually not just against government adults course is found that shell has a legal responsibility for Climate Change. Shell will have to cut their emissions a landmark decision with far reaching implications for environmental policy worldwide. In may, 2021. Dutch Environmental Group new different si, celebrated a huge victory against the oil and gas company shell. One of the top 10 climate polluting companies in the world i think to be held that shows Climate Policy was so poor as to be unlawful. Thats. Thats groundbreaking. Pull benson as a lawyer has claimed earth and environmental law and geo. The Court Ordered shell, which says it will appeal to cut its emissions by 45 percent by the end of the decade. Its the 1st time that a Corporate Group has been ordered to in essence comply with the go with the parents agreement. The court called sale the current Climate Policy, intangible, undefined and non binding and set the company was therefore in danger of violating its duty of care. The grounds were once again human rights and what the court is saying there is that the interest that are served by the decision, i fundamental protections for people on this protection that the climate, those interests out why shows commercial interests. Ah, experts say litigation can only be one part of the solution to the climate crisis, but with successes being scored in courtrooms all over the world. Its clear that from now the legal battle is a Winning Strategy. Ready from a Winning Strategy in the forks for one in the venue will Energy Sector here in india, where the steer to greene is notoriously unreliable. Its a huge problem for businesses large and small. In canada, gosti to capital. Private companies are stepping up to fill the vacuum with decentralized solar power. Dr. Jody is working on a new sickly. The metal needs to be shaped by a hammer and then he did and cooled down multiple dimes before it is just the right shape and strength. For the past 40 years, hes needed help to get his machines running. His wife demonstrates how she used to rotate a crank shaft to regulate the flea him for many hours every day. Now that function is performed by this little regulator that he suffered from fatigue and body aches to the solar powered unit, blows the air with greater force and the steady base. I do that and shows better heat. I do so the work feels easier and i feel happier and more engaged with my work. Does feel the same dilemma get go, sir. Marvin gaye carlo, the blacksmith and his family live 20 kilometers south of bangalore city. Most of the 7000 People Living in their neighbourhood are connected to the national grid. But here, like almost all over india, power cuts are a daily occurrence. In the state of could not have gone to Circle Foundation offers support for those who rely on a Steady Energy supply. They help small scale entrepreneurs to buy solar powered systems. Sell co pays one 3rd of the costs with the rest finance through a micro loan. Today, their staff, i had been with the maintenance of the battery and the solar unit, so great mainly, oh, working closely with there are no bank and out there the Financial Institutions and done. Oh, so we are, we are mainly what are the skins available for the white glove mailed . We will be in being the community or deb the games as well as get them out or get their financial linkages in. There are so much yolanda will go to bank. Sal go, has now helped out around 3000. 00 small on to plenty of income. Not accosted Dairy Farmers hadash of our has also installed big solar panels on his roof to be saved from power cause and not be dependent on fossil fuels anymore. Even when it rains, he can use solar power that is stored in the battery. He used to spend a lot of money on gasoline to run the milking machine needing one liter of the fuel every single day. Now the machines run on solar power. Hes been able to employ more workers and to increase milk production significantly less room in our dairy farm. We use solar power for cleaning the cultured and for melting the cold. We have installed a light as well. Maybe things are better and i work, i mean, i started with duke hours and do cause. Now i have 29 cars and all. Everything is good for them to somebody else will open it back in bangalore. Data jody is now selling the sickle. His profit has risen by 30 percent since he bought the solar powered blore as it enables him to produce the tools faster. This head, the whole family during difficult times, his wife tells us a password diode. Of course, its been hard to save money in the past year name our children were out of work. After the pandemic began, no one offered them a job on the line. But the solar power machining provided help in saving our family from starving. Wonder no one will valet of florida. These do centralized electricity systems could help smaller communities and entrepreneurs to improve their livelihoods and income. But they can also play an Important Role in, in the us transition towards a cleaner energy mix. That the battles agreement was on the 4th time world countries set commitments to solve a common problem. 10 years ago, 74 members of the un ledge to restore millions of square kilometers of the was reinforced by 2030. Our reporter looks at how its going the way the trees are disappearing at an alarming rate. In brazil alone, 4 and a half football fields of primeval forest lost every minute. Globally, forests have shrunk by 10 percent over the past 30 years. And yet these far, sorry, essential to survival, play slow, the global rise in temperature, produce oxygen and bind carbon dioxide. The mixed forest that as well managed, provides, would, and creates prosperity and jobs. Reforestation involves planting new young trees. Like in this nursery where oak tree coatings are being used to raise up new forest. Can the worlds forests be restored . 10 years ago, representatives from many countries met in the german city of bon, where they agreed to restore deforested anti grated landscapes. It was called the bon challenge. Each country set its own goals. Countries all over the globe committed to planting 1500000 square kilometers of new forest by 2020, a huge undertaking. Thats an area about half the size of the indian subcontinent. But thats not all by 2030, theyre aiming to her planted up to 3500000 square kilometers. But like covering an area larger than the whole of india with trees. Its the Worlds Largest ever reforestation program, from peru in the andes to countries across africa. New forest are appearing. India is also taking part me over all the bomb challenges succeeded only in slowing the pace of deforestation. And so a Global Forest continue to shrink. Over the last decade alone, 470000 square kilometers of forest disappeared. Thats an area largest in switzerland. Many experts agree that the goals of the bon challenge are not being achieved, partly because of ongoing deforestation. What does the Organization Behind the initiative think of it all. It is a tragic thing because obviously restoration is not an answer to everything. Restoration has to go hand in hand with protection of the forest that, that remain, you know, was never intended to take any attention away from that. Gemini didnt commit to any goals in the bon challenge. A 30 percent of the country is already covered with forest. However, most of it is monoculture, so the forestry authorities are gradually planting a mixed forests. Miss mode is reasonably stub below you can give us a mixed forest is much more resistant to pests and climate stress and is much more valuable to the entire ecosystem. Because many more species can establish themselves here, a mixed forest is also much better for building up ground water for the condition of the humorous and nutrients in the soil and the owners wallet or food in gold bordered as vipers. Its a mixed forest, require more work, but also create more revenue from timber to these commercial forests that most bon challenge participants are focusing on. Even if many nations are behind on their goals or start has been made. Its vital that reforestation continues creating a Sustainable Planet is not one of the options anymore. Its the only option we have if you want to thrive in our ecosystem and co habit with other living organisms. Think about that and ill see you again next week from all of us in india and germany. Good bye. And thanks for watching. Ah, a ah, with who are illegal fields . Illegal wells. Legal Nature Conservation in southern spain. Foreigners of digging up water from a unesco nature, a fossil fuel, scarce resources, in which the 30s, partly to blame. Lucas on europe. In 30 minutes on d. W. And to the conflict zone with sebastian. More than a 100 days of war in ukraine and the battle of the intensify my guests this week from brussels is lou. Both to both got advisor, Ukraines Armed forces. How long can care rely on western arms and. 3 munition who can it really trust conflicts own 90 minutes on d w. O. Summer break. It just doesnt really much. Does it without the bundis legal . Well, dont worry. It will start up again soon. Owned as legal football, action. Goals. All in on kickoff, since august 9th, here on d w. 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